PuppetDB 2.3 » Installing PuppetDB Via Module

Note: If you are running Puppet Enterprise 3.0 or later, PuppetDB is already installed as part of PE. You do not need to install it separately.

You can install and configure all of PuppetDB’s components and prerequisites (including PuppetDB itself, PostgreSQL, firewall rules on RedHat-like systems, and the
terminus plugins for your Puppet master) using the PuppetDB module from the Puppet Forge.

If you are already familiar with Puppet and have a working Puppet deployment, this is the easiest method for installing PuppetDB. In this guide, we expect that you already know how to assign Puppet classes to nodes.

Step 1: Enable the Puppet Labs Package Repository

Grab the PuppetDB and terminus plugin packages, and import them into your site’s local package repos.

Step 2: Assign Classes to Nodes

Using the normal methods for your site, assign the PuppetDB module’s classes to your servers. You have three main options for deploying PuppetDB:

If you are installing PuppetDB on the same server as your puppet master, assign the puppetdb and puppetdb::master::config classes to it.

If you want to run PuppetDB on its own server with a local PostgreSQL instance, assign the puppetdb class to it, and assign the puppetdb::master::config class to your puppet master. Make sure to set the class parameters as necessary.

If you want PuppetDB and PostgreSQL to each run on their own servers, assign the puppetdb::server class and the puppetdb::database::postgresql classes to different servers, and the puppetdb::master::config class to your puppet master. Make sure to set the class parameters as necessary.

Note: by default the module sets up the PuppetDB dashboard to be accessible only via localhost. If you’d like to allow access to the PuppetDB dashboard via an external network interface, you should set the listen_address parameter on either of the puppetdb or puppetdb::server classes. e.g.:

For full details on how to use the module, see the PuppetDB module documentation on Puppet Forge. The module also includes some sample manifests in the tests directory that demonstrate its basic usage.